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Learning the iTunesDB File Format

Issue 104

From Issue #104
December 2002

Dec 01, 2002  By Patrick Crosby
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Getting into the sequences, byte types and math of the iPod MP3 player.
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Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 02:26.

Excellent article. In hopes that Patrick gets notifications of comments here: may I ask what tool(s) you used to create the figures?

Thanks,
chris@mretc.net

Unfortunately apple changed

Adam Lamers's picture
Submitted by Adam Lamers (not verified) on Thu, 07/30/2009 - 03:59.

Unfortunately apple changed the database format to have a substantially different header in their 3.0 firmware.

Great work

Timothy's picture
Submitted by Timothy (not verified) on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 09:14.

Wow. This is very good to see. Seeing how such a successful device works give much insight into how to improve your own.

+ Amazon s3 = iTunes backup? :)

The Pageman's picture
Submitted by The Pageman (not verified) on Fri, 11/28/2008 - 11:25.

if you combine this with Amazon s3? can you now have iTunes backup in the cloud? :)

Brilliant article

jtopjian's picture
Submitted by jtopjian on Thu, 11/27/2008 - 14:23.

This was a great read. Thank you.

Joe,
adminspotting.net

thank you!

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 22:39.

Thank you, that was the best reverse engineering tutorial I've seen so far.

Outstanding

Jimmy Jones's picture
Submitted by Jimmy Jones (not verified) on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 20:42.

Itunes is pretty cool, but stubborn. Luckily there are MANY helper apps out there to do the things you cant usually do with it.

jess
http://www.privacy.de.tc

amazing post

Dx's picture
Submitted by Dx (not verified) on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 19:30.

very well Patrick, it sounds like a lot of work to deduce this. keep on good work

Excellent work, both as

sean berry's picture
Submitted by sean berry (not verified) on Sun, 07/15/2007 - 11:56.

Excellent work, both as documentation, and as training. Thanks!

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